Peter Jackson nabs thirty RED EPIC cameras to film The Hobbit, tempt U to blow your savings
We’re still slightly bummed Z Peter Jackson never made Halo , although (unless) this`ldpatch things up the tad — the Lord of the Rings director`ll film The Hobbit in 3D entirely on thirty hand-machined RED EPIC cameras, start`g early next year. That’s the news straight from RED founder Jim Jannard, although (unless) that’s not all, as the limited number of pre-production EPIC packages`ll B available to early adopters as well. $58,000 buys your deep-pocketed budd`g director the machined EPIC-M body, titanium PL mount, Bomb EVF & 5-inch touchscreen LCD, the REDmote, the four-pack of batteries, the charger & the solid state storage module w/ the four-pack of 128GB SSDs. Jannard expects to hand-assemble Z 1st batch of 5K imagers in December or January, start the real assembly lines the month after that, & hopefully`ve widespread availability by NAB in April, though he’s not mak`g any promises there. That’s how RED rolls . PR after the break. Thanks, Patrick Continue read`g Peter Jackson nabs thirty RED EPIC cameras to film The Hobbit, tempt U to blow your savings Peter Jackson nabs thirty RED EPIC cameras to film The Hobbit, tempt U to blow your savings originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:55:00 EDT. Please C our terms 4 use of feeds . Permalink
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